She has written novels, short stories, tales, plays, autobiography, literary criticism, political material.

She caused a scandal by her troubled love life and her male attire. She launched the fashion for women to adopt male pseudonyms and male attire: Marie d'Agoult wrote as Daniel Stern (1841-1845), Delphine de Girardin is the pseudonym of Charles de Launay in 1843.

Her fiercest critics were Charles Baudelaire and Jules Barbey d'Aurevilly. Henri Guillemin maintianed that George Sand was central to the intellectual life of her time, welcoming Nohant-Vic or Palaiseau, Liszt, Marie d'Agoult, Balzac, Flaubert, Delacroix, and Victor Hugo to the scene, advising some, encouraging others.

In addition to her immense literary production, she was activly engaged in politics after 1848, inspiring Alexandre Ledru-Rollin, anticipating the launch of three newspapers: "The People's Cause "" The Bulletin of the Republic "," The Scout ", pleading with Napoleon III on behalf ofconvicts, including Victor Hugo, whose work she admired and endeavored to publish." --------------------